Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 12-07-07

CONTENTS

[01] Venizelos: Framework for entire programme should be determined
from now

[01] Venizelos: Framework for entire programme should be determined
from now

AMNA/ PASOK, a junior member in Greece's new three-party coalition
government, insists on the necessity of determining the framework for
the negotiation of the entire economic programme for 2013-2014 from
now and not step-by-step, which position was conveyed by PASOK leader
Evangelos Venizelos to the representatives of the European Commission
(EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
'troika' of Greece's international lenders during a meeting at the
party headquarters.

It is necessary to agree "the general framework of the fiscal adjustment
programme and a new, updated Middle-Term Fiscal Strategy Programme
so that the individual steps that need to be made will refer to that
integrated framework," Venizelos told the troika heads during a one-hour
meeting on Saturday.

A PASOK announcement said that "a first useful exchange of views" took
place during the meeting, with Venizelos referring particularly to the
new policy framework the country was moving in and to the tolerance of
the Greek economy and society, putting forward the issue of a revision
of the agreement under the procedures if foresees, beginning with an
extension of the fiscal adjustment by three years.

The contacts will resume in about 15 days, when the troika is due to
return to Athens.